Tribal Theory in Native American Literature : Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews


Penelope Myrtle. Kelsey
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Lincoln : : University of Nebraska Press, , 2008.
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1 online resource (190 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction: Indigenous Knowledge as Tribal Theory; 1. Pictographs and Politics in Marie McLaughlin's Myths and Legends of the Sioux: A Dakota Storyteller in the Ozan Tradition; 2. Charles Eastman's Role in Native American Resistance Literature: A ""Real Indian"" to the Boy Scouts; 3. Zitkala Sa, Sentiment, and Tiospaye: Reading Dakota Rhetorics of Nation and Gender; 4. Ella Deloria's Decolonizing Role as Camp Historian in Waterlily: Sisters, Brothers, and the Hakata Relationship. - 5. A Gendered Future: Wi and Hanwi in Contemporary Dakota Writing6. Tribal Theory Travels: Kanien'kehaka Poet Maurice Kenny and the Gantowisas; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - This book raises the provocative issue of how Native languages and knowledges were historically excluded from the study of Native American literature and how their encoding in early Native American texts destabilized colonial processes. Cogently argued and well-researched, Tribal Theory in Native American Literature sets an agenda for indigenous literary criticism and invites scholars to confront the worlds behind the literatures that they analyze.
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